Lately, any mention of fuel prices gives most of us the jitters. R100 worth of petrol hardly gets that fuel gauge needle excited and seems to evaporate from your tank in no time.

Today's headlines don't bring any more relief as the cabinet has decided that fuel levies will stay. This follows an announcement by Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica that a reduction in the fuel levies would be discussed with Trevor Manuel. 

It was explained that levies are a specific tax and not a percentage so they were unaffected by fuel price change. Levies typically stay the same throughout a full year. The current levy is 111c on diesel and 127c/l on petrol.

Source: businessday.co.za

Every time there's an announcement about fuel prices I can almost feel my wallet getting tighter and vow to make less unnecessary trips. Of course that's soon forgotten as soon as the fuel-gauge dial sits on the "F" and the car feels like a python that's just eaten a whole sheep. The bottom line is that most of us dread any fuel price announcement as they always seem to increase. On the AA site it shows that unleaded 93 started a 584 c/l, up to 711 in June and a slight decrease to 690 this month. A similar tend is exhibited in other fuel types.

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